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Originally Posted by Reptil  whoah old thread!
what happened???!
oh avalon - clean - I like the high end a lot
very polished sound - would not kick an AD3044 out of the bed |
AD
2044. I love it for tracking stereo synths. I'm with DSMrehearsal: last CD I made I tracked all my Virus parts through AD2022 -> AD2055 -> AD2044. I was very happy with the sounds I got.
The only problem is that it raises the noise floor a bit, so that on recordings where you want a very silent backdrop you have to be careful what the analog front end is introducing in the way of noise. This is especially true for the preamp, because in effect what you are doing when you run the Virus through a preamp is attenuating the signal and then re-amplifying it, and that will necessarily introduce at least some noise even using the best preamps. (I thought the tradeoff was worth it last time, because the preamp gives you great control over the level of the signal through the rest of the chain and adds some sparkle. But there's an argument to be made for skipping the preamp and going straight to some other analog signal processor.)
-synthoid